The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-04-27
MEMORY OF RUSSIAN POLICE.
Why the Bulgarian Regents Hold Out
Instances OF Russian Brutality.

Instances OF Russian Brutality.
From the Ne,c York Mail
One of the reasons of the apparently
senseless resistance Of the Bulgarians to the
Gar is due to the knowledge of those in
power at Sofia of Russia's unsparing treat
ment of ''rebels" or political enemies. This
alone win suffice to prevent the leaders of
the national movement in the Balkans from
coming to terms with her, except when
neither resistance nor fight is possible. That
the Russian political police never forgive is
pretty well known The following illustra-
ton thereof may be of interest In the
year 1850 Stanisas Jablonowski, the son of
Polish country gentleman, was appointed
from one or the military schools at St
Petersburg to a commission in a Guards
regiment and had leave to visit his home
before joining. While he was still with his
family the Polish Instruction broke out
and the lad was ordered by his father to
join the insurgents. He did so much against
his own will, his Russian military education
having somewhat blunted his feelings of
patriotism But as his father threatened
him with the pateTnal curse in case of dis
obedience he threw in his lot with the pa
triOtS. W hen in the following year the in
surrectlon was extinguished, young Jablo-
nowSk was fortunate enough to escape
drought Wallachia to Turkey. where he
entered one of the Guards regiments which
happened at that time to be chiefly com
posed OF Christians of all nationalities and
differed by Poles, the commander being
Czaykowski Pasha In this regiment he
rose gradually to the rank of Major, and at
length retired from the service on a pension.
intirm and broken III health, in 1873. As a
reward tor his long and meritorious service
the Porte appointed him to the compare
lively easy post OF Surveyor Of Roads IN the
District OF Shven. Here he vegetated
quietly until the war of 1871 when, UNI
fortunately for himself, he elected to stay
with most of the other Christian residents
i'll the town until the entry of the Russians
OF course he never dleamt that he would be
punished for having fought against the Rus
slams torty-seven years previously. But the
police section of the army which occupied
the town of Sllven brought with it the pho
| tographs Of seven persons who were want
ed, and among them was a portrait of
Jabionowski, taken seven years previously
at Adrianople. Although arrested without
delay, he was at first treated very lenientlv
and invited daily to dinner by officers who
knew his story. \ few weeks afterwards
however, orders We're received to convey
him to the Danube headquarters, and he was
sent under escort with cOmnlSSGriat trans
port caravan. At first he was allowed to
sit on baggage wagon, from which, after
an hour or SO, he was forced to alirht and
walk. For some distance he managed to
make his way through the snow and mud.
but then fell, was logged with Cossack
whips till he stumbled no and proceeded n
few more PAGES; then he fell n second time.
and, flogging proving useless, he was
shot through the head in cold blood, and his
corpse was left lying in the snow by the
roadside.